Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول. Great recipe for Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول. Ma'amoul معمول cookies is a kind of Arabic stuffed cookies made with semolina,and flour. It can be filled with a variety of nuts and fillings such as: walnuts, pistachio, almonds, dates, and figs.
Yum Maamoul Date Cookies (معمول بالتمر) are very famous traditional Middle Eastern cookies that have been around for generations.
They are extremely delicious and served during many occasions.
They are soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside.
You can cook Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول using 31 ingredients and 29 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول
- You need 1 1/2 cup of plain flour (all purpose flour).
- It's 500 g of semolina.
- It's 150 g of Ghee or butter, melted.
- It's 1/2 cup of sunflower oil.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of powdered milk.
- Prepare 1 cup of powdered sugar.
- It's 1 tsp of nutmeg powdered.
- It's 1/2 tsp of baking powdered.
- You need pinch of salt.
- It's 1/4 cup of milk.
- It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 1 tsp of yeast.
- Prepare 1 tsp of white sugar.
- It's 1/4 cup of lukewarm water.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of rose water.
- It's of Ingredients for fillings.
- Prepare of Date filling.
- Prepare 500 g of dates, deseeded.
- It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- You need 2 tbsp of veggie oil.
- Prepare 1 tsp of cardamom powdered.
- You need of Pistachio filling.
- It's 250 g of pistachio, chopped or powdered.
- You need 6 tbsp of sugar.
- It's 3 tbsp of water.
- You need 1/2 tsp of cardamom.
- It's of Walnuts filling.
- You need 200 g of walnuts, finely chopped.
- It's 6 tbsp of sugar.
- You need 3 tbsp of water.
- Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon powder.
Maamoul is an ancient Arab dessert filled pastry or cookie made with dates, pistachios or nuts such as walnuts (occasionally almonds). They may be in the shape of balls, domed or flattened cookies. They can either be decorated by hand or be made in special wooden molds. My Pistachio Maamoul Cookies (معمول بالفستق) are another version of Maamoul Date Cookies served in the Middle East.
Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول instructions
- Ingredients.
- In a big bowl, add semolina, melted Ghee and vegetable oil. Using your hand mix it. Make sure semolina is covered with ghee/butter and oil..
- Cover the bowl and leave it overnight. Next day semolina will be soften. Now, add flour, powdered sugar, powdered milk, baking powder, nutmeg and pinch of salt to the semolina..
- Mix until all ingredients are combined together.In next step, stir in sugar and yeast to lukewarm water. Wait for about 10-15 minutes, until surface of mixture becomes foamy..
- Now, add milk, rose water and yeast mixture to the semolina. Use your hand and combine all ingredients together.
- And knead it until you have a soft dough like. Cover it and let to rest for 1 hour. After an hour, give ball shape to the ma’amul dough and set aside..
- In the meantime, we prepare the fillings. You can have one filling or collection of different fillings with nuts, date, or fig..
- Blend pitted dates together in a food processor. Add oil and spice. Mix until smooth. Roll it into small balls..
- Mix pistachio powder with sugar, cardamom and water. Make a paste and then give small ball shape to pistachio paste..
- Mix chopped walnuts with sugar, water and cinnamon. Make a paste and then give small ball shape to the paste..
- Now our different fillings are ready 👏👏.
- Take one of dough balls. Using your thumb press a hole in the centre of each ball..
- Place one of fillings in the hole and then seal it and roll it into a ball again. put each filled ball gently into the mould and bang it against the counter to release it..
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- If you do not have mould, you can give shape with different methods: a ring shape ma’amoul with following method: Roll the dough into a log shape. Press your fore finger on the dough as you see in the photos and make a shallow trough on the dough..
- Now fill the log with one of fillings and seal the dough..
- Bring two ends of the dough to each other and make a ring shape..
- Or Put the filled dough inside the Ice cream spoon and bang it against the counter..
- Another method is using a knife or fork and make a pattern on the dough as you see in the following photos.👇👇.
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- Arrange all the cookies with different fillings in the same way. Place all pastries on parchment lined baking sheet and bake at 200C degree for 15 minutes, until golden brown. Once cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar and chopped pistachio..
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They are extremely delicious and served during many occasions including Eid El-Fitr at the end of Ramadan. Serve them as a dessert or snack that the whole family will love! Some say ma'amoul, a popular Middle Eastern cookie stuffed with date puree, is a reminder that at the end of the fasting period, there's a sweet reward. Stamped with geometric designs, they make beautiful edible gifts. Maamoul (also written Ma'amoul) are an ancient cookie from the Arab world.